by admin | Aug 1, 2017 | Alexander Technique, Attention, Awareness, Ballet, Choice, Creating space, Mindfulness, Uncategorized
Your torso wants to colonize your limbs, to pull them in and hold them close. To allow that without informed dissent is to live centripetally, in a destructive form of self-containment, a false security. You can choose to live more centrifugally, the limbs and head...
by admin | Jan 18, 2016 | Alexander Technique, Attention, Awareness, Creating space, Self-disovery, Thought
In dark and hidden places there shines the (blessing) light, goes an old hymn. Bless the dark and hidden places of your body—your organs, all the hidden sacs and tubes of your torso—bless them with the sunshine of your thought. It may be the most refreshing moment of...
by admin | Nov 19, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Creating space, Means not ends, Mindfulness, Posture, Presence
The posture of power is not arming your self; it is disarming your self, and thereby, others. You neither have to adopt it nor put it on. The posture of power is receptivity, your back widening, your torso opening all around. Open pathways will be filled by your...
by admin | Nov 5, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Breath, Creating space, Gesture, Hands, Meditation, Meeting, Mindfulness, Presence, relatiionships, Self-disovery, touch
Today, create an opportunity to reach out, to touch someone. Reach out, touch, and let your hand remain. And still remain. Notice how both toucher and touched are changed. Do an inventory of your self: shoulder, elbow, wrist, ankles, and hips; and continue to melt...
by admin | Nov 4, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Back pain, Creating space, Hands, Means not ends, Posture, Presence
Put this under the category of strange, or if you agree, strangely wonderful. You may know we’ve got eagles here, yes, eagles, and here’s a picture, although from a distance. Put that tree right above you, it’s trunk in you, raise one hand or both...
by admin | Nov 2, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Breath, breathing, Creating space, Gesture, Meditation, Mindfulness, Presence, Singing
A self-blessing. Place the palm of one hand, fingers pointing inward, lying easily and slightly cupped on the xiphoid process just under your sternum. Then turn your hand gently upward. Give yourself a little lift, fingers and hand staying in place. You’ll breathe...
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